Hot he register for fire place heaters



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W. F. ROS$1VANH HOT AIR REGISTER FOR FIRE PLACE HEATERS.

. Pajteritd AprQ 17, 1888,.

.VINVENTORL.

jWITNE-SSES:

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED, STATES WILLIAM F. RossMANfor HUDSON, NEWYORK.

HVOT-AIRREGISTE'R FoR Flee-PLACE H AT T SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,283,6lated April 17, 1888.

Application filed April 25, 1887. Serial No. 236,101. (No model.)

' To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. RossMAN, of Hudson, in the county of Columbia and State of New York, have invented a new'and' Improved Hot-Air Register for Fire-Place Heaters, of vwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My improved register is designed to be placed in the chimney just above the fireplace heater. By adjustment of its pivoted valves the heat from the stove may be readily thrown out altogether into the room in which the stove or heater is situated or be partially or wholly thrown into an adjoining room or rooms or into chambers above, and-wherein the said damper may be applied to any flue p to be placed.

in which the smoke-pipe must necessarily pass through the damper. 1

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims. v 7

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figurel' is a plan view of the register, the chimney in which the same is placed for use being shown in dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section upon line as a; of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a similar section upon line 3 y of Fig. 1.

In carrying outthe invention an open frame,

A, is provided, which may be either oval,

square, round, or any desired shape best adapted to the flue in which the registers are The frame A is adapted to be placedabove the heater, and is provided with a central integralring, A, having apertured ears a cast solid with the lower side of the ring near its union with the frame, and a recess, a, is

, formed in one upper side of the ring and also in the frame, as shown in Fig. 4.

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against the opposite and underside, as shown in Fig. 3. V

Integral with one sideedge of each valve B B upwardly=extending lugs b b are provided,

to eaohof which lugs one end of an upwardly curved or arched bar, D, is pivotally attached,

"preferably by means of n'utsand screws d, the

said arched bar being pivoted in anelongated slot, d, centrally of a rocking bar, E, connect- The lower end of the rockingijbarE is made cylindrical and provided with a square aper- I I ture, e, in which a proper key, F, is inserted,

whereby the valves are opened or, closed at f pleasure. In an aperture at the top of-the rocking bara rod, Hfis securedjwhich may i extend out into the room and have suitable connection with any portion thereofi'sothat the said valves may be operated without approaching the heater.

the under side of the ring A by engaging with the lugs a, which collar istprovided with an N, of pipe, extending from the heater being adapted for engagement with the inner sur- A collar, M, is held' in connection with 5 upwardly-projecting flange, m, integral vilfih z the inner face, over which flange to a bearing upon the collar is sprung the section of pipe N, projecting up the flue, the lower section,

face of the collar, as illustrated in Figs. 3 1

' and 4. 1 v o,

An apertured plate-M, is attached to the v side of the frame A, in which'the projecting end of the cylindrical portion of therocki'ng', bar or lever E is journaled, the said plate'beingpurposed to keep said bar E down in its bearing in the frame. It wil-lbe. observed that by, the foregoing construction a closeand,

tight register is obtained when needed, and that at the same time a passage is provided through the register for the smokepipe without interfering'with the free'operation of the valves. 7

From the foregoing I description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the operation will be readily understood.

It will be observed that theuppersection i of I pipe is at all times supported'by the collar M, so thatthe heater may be detached and.re-

placed at pleasure with ease and celeritywith-' f foutdisturbing the length ofpipe passing up 60 j ing said rocking bar'and valves and having a x bearing in the recess a, as shownin-"Flg. 4.

the flue, the short section leading from the heater being readily adjusted in or detached from the collar.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The hot-air register for use in lines or chimneys in connection with fire-place heaters, the same consisting of the rigid frame A, the ring rigidly secured within it, and one or more valves which are pivoted in said frame and are adapted to close the opening or openings between it and the said ring, as shown and described.

2. The combination, substantially as shown and described, of the ring-shaped collar M, having vertical flange m, with a supportingframe to which it is attached, valves B B, an

' upper flue-pipe resting on said collar, and the upon said frame at each side of the ring, of 0 the rocking bar E, connecting-bar D, and a rod for operating the valves, as shown and described.

WILLIAM ROSSMAN.

Witnesses:

MILO P. MOORE, MILTON M. HALL. 

